Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
। सूत उवाच । अथापश्यत्स विप्राणां वृन्दं वृन्दारकोपमम् । संनिविष्टं धरापृष्ठे लीलाभाजि द्विजोत्तमाः । एके वेदविदस्तत्र वेदव्याख्यानतत्पराः । परस्परं सुसंक्रुद्धा विवदंति जिगीषवः
| sūta uvāca | athāpaśyatsa viprāṇāṃ vṛndaṃ vṛndārakopamam | saṃniviṣṭaṃ dharāpṛṣṭhe līlābhāji dvijottamāḥ | eke vedavidastatra vedavyākhyānatatparāḥ | parasparaṃ susaṃkruddhā vivadaṃti jigīṣavaḥ
সূত ক’লে: তেতিয়া তেওঁ বিপ্ৰসকলৰ এক বৃহৎ সমূহ দেখিলে, যেন দেৱগণৰ দল; তেওঁলোক সেই লীলাস্থানত ভূমিৰ ওপৰত বহি আছিল। তাত কিছুমান বেদবিদ আছিল, বেদব্যাখ্যাত তৎপৰ; কিন্তু পৰস্পৰে ক্ৰুদ্ধ হৈ, জয়লাভৰ আকাঙ্ক্ষাৰে একে-আনেকৰ সৈতে বিতৰ্ক কৰি আছিল।
Sūta
Tirtha: Camatkārapura
Type: kshetra
Listener: Naimiṣāraṇya sages (implied)
Scene: A large circle of brāhmaṇas seated on the ground like a divine assembly; some hold palm-leaf manuscripts; gestures show heated argument—furrowed brows, raised hands—while the arriving sage observes.
FAQs
Even learned people can fall into rivalry; dharma requires humility and right discernment beyond mere debate.
The episode is unfolding in the locale reached earlier—Camatkārapura—within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s tīrtha narrative.
None; it describes an assembly of Veda scholars engaged in disputation.